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Hofer in the office of Kronen Zeitung, Austria's most influential tabloid (Photo: Hofer's campaign)

Analysis

Austria prepares for historic swerve to the right

If pistol-packing presidential candidate Norbert Hofer triumphs in the run-off of the presidential election on Sunday (22 May) he will become the first democratically elected far-right head of state in Western Europe since the Second World War.

Despite the shudders such a spectre prompts for many in Austria and throughout the European Union, Hofer, a member of the populist Freedom Party (FPO) and a fierce critic of Austria’s refugee policy, is the odds-on favourite heading into the show...

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